This volume presents the Proceedings of the IUTAM Symposium on  'Theoretical and Numerical Methods in Continuum Mechanics of Porous  Materials' held at the University of Stuttgart, Germany, September  5--10, 1999. It contains 57 articles showing the state of the  art in the field of porous media research.   The goal of the Symposium was to bring together the scientific results  of leading experts in the field. Thus, the volume provides the whole  range of modelling empty, partially saturated and fully saturated  porous materials, such as soil, concrete, sinter materials, metallic  and polymeric foams, glacier and rock ice, living tissues, etc. In  addition to the macroscopic continuum mechanical view of porous  materials and the numerical computations of fully coupled  solid--fluid problems, micro-to-macro homogenization strategies  are presented and material parameters are compared to experimental  data to optimize the geometrically linear and finite approaches for  the description of the elastic, viscous and plastic properties of the  solid matrix and the viscous properties of the pore-fluids. In  addition to these general topics, several contributions are included  concerning the fields of wave propagation, localization phenomena,  Biot's approach to porous media, fracture and damage, swelling, drying  and shrinkage, as well as composite materials.   Like a state-of-the-art volume, this book allows researchers and  engineers to get an excellent overview of the theoretical and  numerical description of porous materials, including various  applications to practical engineering problems.

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